News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-11
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An ornithologist who recently made
a stay of some weeks at Santa Rita,
Arizona, is reported to have collected
five hundred specimens of different
birds during the time.
Sportsmen have f1ocked into North
ern California IN such numbers that
old residents say there are now more
fishermen than trout in the streams,
and 80 or 40 rifles to one deer.
A Texas editor who advertised that
he would take country produce for
subscriptions, was rendered a couple
of wildcats in Il box, but the editor
Indignantly drew the line at wildcats.
A sixteen-years-old girl broke into
house in Washington recently, stole
about 500 worth of articles and then
act it on fire. She was wearing some
of the stolen property when arrested.
One result of the warm weather is
the growing desire for perfected
electric motor. The sufferings and
loss of horses upon street railways
have touched not only the sympathy
of the public but the sense of econo-
my of the companies.
A Jamaica negro who lately arrived
at San Francisco is seven feet and
five inches high, and the development
of his body is in proportion to his
height. He is said to be spelling for
fight and to have whipped all who
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A farmer in Indiana made his boys
burn all the bumblebee nests, and was
surprised that he could not get crop
of clover. The bumblebees are the
chief agents in carrying the pollen of
the clover from one bloom to another,
and thus fructifying the plant.
A band of robbers attempted to
break into the house of E. G.. Marvin,
a druggist of Rutland, Monday night
of last week. They had climbed a
ladder to his bedroom window, awak-
ening him, which caused their fight.
The same parties have attempted rob-
berry in several towns of late.
Western papers are having a good
deal to say these days Of a woman
who lived in Kansas who died because
of Sc the extreme loneliness of her sur
roundings.' Full particulars are not
gwen, but it is suspected that she was
an employee in a store which didn't
think it worth while 10 advertise.
There is said to to be man in lead
vile Col, who can tell by the tingling
sensation in his fingers when he walks
over body of ore. He is a living
mineral detector. His powers are
said to have been thoroughly tested,
and he has earned large sums by his
peculiar gifts, but his fondness for
faro keeps him poor.
The complete skeleton Of a man
was recently found in a thicket of
young trees on the battlefield of An
tietam, and by its side the scabbard
and blade of an officers sword. The
seclusion probably accounts for its
being overlooked for so long a time.
There being no means of Identified
ton, the bones were inferred near
where they were discovered.
The story is told at Newton, La,
that man was picking apples recent
ly when an old COW ran up to him and
then away, acting very strangely.
Suspecting that something must be
the matter, the man followed the ami
NAL and came TO a COW in another
part of the orchard that was nearly
choaked to death with an apple. At
ter he had relieved her the other COW
licked the sufferer profusely, and in
other ways showed her joy.
1t is reported that during the recent
earthquake in Kentucky, tract of
more than 250 acres Of fine farming
land in Trigg county, sank five or six
feet below the level of the surround
ing country, and the space was filed
to the depth of three feet by water
from springs started by the earth
quake. There is large pond near
the locality and the region is general
ly low and swampy. The negroes
fled in terror at the phenomenon.